How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?

[LeeB]

Oh it's not risk-free by any means, I just think if there's a priority list of risks football is being placed lower down than it should be.

I'm probably just biased as I want to be able to play amateur football next season! Far less fussed about premier league in all honesty

If I was still playing that would bother me far more than the Villa. It used to ruin my week if the game got called off.

[peckvillajunior]

Yup. Lockdown and sunshine followed about 6 weekends of heavy rain, bloody typical

[Risso]

Oh it's not risk-free by any means, I just think if there's a priority list of risks football is being placed lower down than it should be.

I'm probably just biased as I want to be able to play amateur football next season! Far less fussed about premier league in all honesty

If I was still playing that would bother me far more than the Villa. It used to ruin my week if the game got called off.

I really miss Tuesday night 6 aside.  I'd pick that in a choice between watching Villa and playing that again.

[DrGonzo]

If it restarts I, for one, will refuse to go to the matches.

Ever?

Quite possibly.  I'm tired of all the tawdry BS that surrounds modern football.  The money grabbing and greed from all sides at the pinnacle of the sport is no longer justifiable.  It hasn't been for a long time in all honesty, I've stick with it until now out of a misguided sense of loyalty.  I think the actions of everybody protecting their meal tickets and making sure their piece of the pie is in no way going to be diminished has become too perverse for me to coninue to support. 

[garyellis]

Perhaps the deadline for decision is getting closer?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52456304

[Toronto Villa]

Very few if any of us can just turn off a passion for a sport that has consumed the vast majority of our life. If the PL started in June or July or even next year without a vaccine or some sort of medication to combat Covid it will upset a percentage of the population. But the truth is even if you didn’t or couldn’t go to games you’d still be interested. And as things changed and hopefully improved, and the games are being played you’d be more interested.

There is never going to be a perfect scenario until a cure is created and mass distributed. But corporations, governments, employers, society won’t wait that long. We can’t exist forever this way and at some point over weeks and months everything will return just looking different to what it once was. The question is when? And it will differ sometimes greatly across all of the things we all once did or were accustomed to seeing or doing.

As for this season; Simon Jordan who often offers excellent perspective said this. For me he’s right on the money.

https://twitter.com/talksport/status/1255113965811761152?s=21

[aev]

The French gov't have said no sporting events until August (even behind closed doors), and Germany has (according to John Simpson) an R rate above 1 - they lifted some restrictions and 3 weeks ago had an R rate of 0.7.

[Towser]

The Ligue 1 & Ligue 2 seasons in France have been ENDED.

There is a possible return for the new 2020/21 season in August.

[DB]

Blimey.

[VinnieChase84]

French news will add further pressure for them to do the right thing over here.

[devilla]

So over 500 people have died from Coronavirus in England over the last 24 hours. On what level of reality can it be considered reasonable to think of re-starting football? It beggars belief.

Fair play to the French for taking the sensible decision to end the season.

[Nev]

Another domino falls but English football continues to flee up endless cul-de-sacs.

[mallo]

UEFA has set a limit of 25th May to state whether each country will or won't finish their respective leagues. It's a good while away, but if the Premier League state after Fridays meeting that they will finish the season, then they're in all sorts of grey areas - they just can't know whats going to happen.

[CT]

France have stopped all sport until September, including behind closed doors.

[chrisw1]

So over 500 people have died from Coronavirus in England over the last 24 hours. On what level of reality can it be considered reasonable to think of re-starting football? It beggars belief.

Fair play to the French for taking the sensible decision to end the season.

The death toll is tragic.  But they are not talking about it restarting now, they are talking about possibly June or maybe even Juiy or August.  Is it really that wrong to keep their options open when some clubs may be struggling to keep afloat?